this is me.

So I take it you would like to know more about the person responsible for the content of this blog.

My name is Geoff Mayhew, but some of my friends call me Jeoss (Jee-ahs). I am a lifelong resident of Washington State and currently live in Renton. I spent the first eighteen years of my life on the east side of the state in Spokane but I feel at home when I am in, on, or around the Puget Sound.

Nearly everyone in my family is artistic in some way. My father and sister are very musical and my mother is a ceramic artist. I also have a fraternal twin. His artistic ability was, is, and will forever superior to my own, but I came to terms with this fact early on in my life.

It would be prudent of me to mention that my mother is Japanese. She introduced me to origami and invested in what was probably a 90% complete library of the time’s finest origami literature. My numerous visits to Japan to see my relatives were hugely influential on my childhood.

I started this blog during my time as an undergraduate of Western Washington University. I had time to design my own things while earning a B.S. in Biology with a marine emphasis (and minor in environmental science and Japanese) largely because I lacked a social life. Luckily, I gathered enough courage to ask a girl I was crushing on for three years out to a date. Being her boyfriend is my life’s greatest achievement.

After working as a biologist on commercial fishing vessels in Alaska, I started working for Washington State. I was fortunate enough to land a position where I can do science in an outdoor office, drive boats, and lead others in meaningful projects.

The last thing you need to know in order to understand me is that I like turtles and tortoises.

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Hey, I’m a twin too! and I fold paper…

I ran across your blog while googling “Origami for Interpreters”. You mentioned in one of your posts that you have a Flickr account… I was wondering, what’s your username? I’d like to see some more of your photos, judging from the stuff you’ve posted here.

Oh, and I’m guessing that you’d be “jeoss mayhem” on the forum? Or is that a coincidence?

Heh, well I’ve never known another twin folder, since mine doesn’t.
I have a Flickr and a Photobucket, but everything you see on this blog is what’s on the hosters (except for some of the photodiagrams that I make for forumgoers). Maybe someday I’ll make my Flickr more presentable but it’ll take me quite some time to organize. And, I really don’t have all that much work photographed (in I way I’d like to present to other people, anyway).

But yea, I’m JeossMayhem. You must be ahudson then. Well thanks for visiting this space, I wish I had more to present but I’ve been spending the daytime in classes or eating and the majority of the nightime studying. I’m returning home from school a week from today so I should be able to get back into the folding groove and get some things up here.

By: jeoss on June 6, 2008 at 8:31 pm

hey dude can you help me pleae….i was trying to find the cp of kamiya satoshis phoenix v3.5 and what kind of paper to use…. and a little bit of help with the folding….if can reply…..thanks…

I’ve folded it once before, just not one I was really happy with. I may have time to help you a bit with the CP but if you’re not very experienced with them, I’m sorry to say I’m not the best person to ask for help. I’m a bit swamped with school/work/my own projects. Good luck!

our 9-year old daughter has been doing Origami for years, like you!
Now we live in Spokane, WA, and wonder if you know a group of (experienced) Origami youngsters with who our daughter could meet. She’d like to share her passion because it’s more fun, especially at that age.
We received your email-address from Eric Demaine!
Thanks – we’d be happy to hear from you.
Ines

By: Ines on December 11, 2009 at 8:25 am

Hello, Ines,
I’m happy to hear of your daughter’s passion, as well as her parents’ support of it! However, I’m sorry to say I’m not aware of any major origami groups, as I was never able to find any myself. Through my schooling in Spokane, I only met a handful of other students who practiced origami… The closest group I can think of is the one Joseph Wu has set up in Vancouver, BC, which would be an awesome time if you can make it there, I’m sure.
Because it’s so hard to find origami folders as well as to collect them in one place, I’ve found the best resource was through the origami forum at http://www.thekhans.me.uk/forum. You might be reserved to let your daughter wander a public forum, but if you were not aware of it, it is an international forum that is run in English, and is highly moderated. I’ve found this is the best way to talk with other artists, see what they’ve been making, and the easiest way to inspire oneself to take their skill to the next level.
I would also be happy to keep in contact with you if you have any other questions, I’ve sent you an e-mail from my alternate address.
Happy Holidays!
Geoff

hm…….what style of folding you like?box-pleating?hex-pleating?what is your deesign style?

By: Anonymous on June 14, 2010 at 3:55 am

I’ve found I like working with hex-pleating. And I would argue the precreases look much better than if they were box-pleated. But I’m trying not to limit myself to one method. Whatever works, you know?
In terms of my ‘style’… I have a very amateur, paper-inefficient style, haha. I’m not experienced enough with designing my own things to have really established a way of folding I could call my own.

My name is Jessie and I have been searching for a talented origami artist in the Seattle area. I am blown away by your talent! The production company I work for is shooting a spot this week and we are looking for an origami artist to fold paper into shoes, shirts, pants etc for a time lapse piece. All we will see is your hands working their magic. This is a paid gig. Just wondering if you are interested and/or available. If so, please send me an email at jessica@subversionz.com. Thanks!

By: jessie on November 5, 2011 at 4:44 pm

Hey jeoss, my name is jesse. I just stumbled upon your blog while looking up new subjects for origami. Anyways I saw you are from washington which is not too far from where i am from (portland, oregon). We should talk or meet up sometime if you want. Send an email to jessebarr6@gmail.com when you get a chance.
hope to talk to you soon

If you were wondering:

Random thought:

Oh man, it's a long one this time:

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is where the irreparably damaged, infected, useless, or cancerous cells of an animal either voluntarily or by command of surrounding tissue terminate themselves for the good of cellular society. Prior to this, they first give away their valuable, salvageable constituents to the rest of the cells before being destroyed in a clean manner so as to prevent an inflammatory response. Such processes prevent humans from having webbed feet at birth, developing tumors or diseases, etc.

If this is the way nature does it, why don't humans? Is the human tendecy to be incredibly reluctant towards the removal of certain people unnatural? In other words, does its lack of a widely used 'programmed human death' system disrupt society by allowing its destructive, wasteful, or infectious members to continue to cause problems?

It's amazing how nature can be so logical about things. Either nature intended humans to be illogical, or we're just doing something wrong.

Let's take it to an even larger scale. Humans are a part of the society of the entire biosphere, and, as a whole, our actions have undoubtedly caused serious harm to it. It isn't hard to make the argument that we act like a cancer, a destructive force that seems to be unhindered by the population controls we're faced with. Perhaps, eventually, humans will face "programmed species death" in an effort by the biosphere to save itself. Remember the 1951 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still"? (Ok, most likely not but stick with me here.) It ends with the humans facing annihilation by the other worlds of the universe, who feel threatened by the presence of our destructive and violent technologies in space.

But, our extinction by the will of the biosphere seems impractical to me. That would only quicken the destruction of the world because humans have made things so bad that we truly are the only ones who can fix it before a catastrophic collapse in the biosphere. I feel it has become our responsibility as a species to justify our continued participation in the biosphere by the collective effort of every individual of our 6.7 billion population to quickly reverse our negative global impact. Just think, 6.7 billion people. Don't you think such a feat would actually be a simple task with that kind of brainpower, willpower, manpower?

"The decision rests with you."

(P.S. - For those of you who didn't catch that reference to the previously mentioned film, for crying out loud, watch it!)

And just in case you were unaware:

This forum is a great place to visit if you want to take your origami skills to another level. Get feedback and critiques, learn new techniques, and be inspired by some of the greatest folders out there.